At the heart of the canton's property market, the city of Geneva accounts for most transactions, from studios in the Pâquis to high-end apartments in Champel.
At CHF 14,700 per m² for a flat, Geneva sits in the upper band of the Geneva market. That level usually goes with scarce building land and few sales, so a valuation rests on a thin set of comparables. Over 2 years, 1,371 property sales in Geneva completed and were registered. Half went above a total price of CHF 1,500,000 and half below. Asking prices sit higher, since they still include everything buyers negotiated away.
Paying 25 percent more than the cantonal median buys location, not floor space. The same budget moved to a neighbouring commune would typically add a room, and that is the trade most buyers here have already made. Geneva ranks 5 out of 45 communes in Geneva on flat prices per m². Rankings shift a place or two from one year to the next without anything real changing, so read the band rather than the exact position.
Per square metre, a flat in Geneva at CHF 14,700 costs more than a house at CHF 13,700. Large houses spread their price across surface nobody pays the full rate for: corridors, cellars, attic space under the eaves. Flat prices in Geneva are up 2.2 percent over twelve months. One year is a short window: measure it against the longer trajectory before you read it as a change of direction. 23 percent of the housing in Geneva dates from before 1919. Older stock buys you volume and detail, and hands you the bill for it: roof, heating and windows come round, and thermal performance is the first thing a valuer marks down.
Average size in Geneva is 74 m² across 2.6 rooms. Compare your own property with that figure before you read any price per square metre: an outsized home rarely sells at the local rate, and a small one often beats it. Over 25 years the median moved from CHF 3,500 to CHF 10,800 per m², a change of +209 percent. That is the market, not your property: a flat renovated in the meantime followed a different curve entirely.
A price level like the one in Geneva leaves little room for approximation. An estimate built on the actual characteristics of your property, floor, condition, view and exposure, will tell you more than any commune average.
Building stock data: Federal Register of Buildings and Dwellings, FSO, updated August 3, 2026
Market data updated on August 24, 2026
A range set against land registry sales and the profile of your property.
Value my property →Around CHF 14,700 per m² for a flat, which is 25 percent from the Geneva median. Houses are priced separately and usually land somewhere else entirely, so work from the figure that matches your property type.
Houses in Geneva are valued around CHF 13,700 per m² of living space. The plot weighs heavily on that figure, so two houses of identical size can be far apart in price if one has land around it and the other has none.
The dominant band in Geneva is before 1919, which covers 23 percent of homes. Average size runs to 2.6 rooms, so the commune is built mainly for households rather than for single occupants or short stays.